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| author | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-07-01 05:47:58 +0000 |
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| committer | jkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-07-01 05:47:58 +0000 |
| commit | 4025ef571e2e400268882bb2c1c710290bb8c382 (patch) | |
| tree | f0bc0c0cd266b31fe9b50fc6bb5a26244724b183 /libexec/atrun | |
| parent | 079249c72b5c0fb2904b7a7047d32db6093792ee (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-4025ef571e2e400268882bb2c1c710290bb8c382.zip FreeBSD-src-4025ef571e2e400268882bb2c1c710290bb8c382.tar.gz | |
Clean up grammar. Provide proper pathnames for spool directories.
Document dependency on current load average for starting new batch jobs.
PR: 7109
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/atrun')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/atrun/atrun.man | 28 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/atrun/atrun.man b/libexec/atrun/atrun.man index 2b5a0ee..0db3672 100644 --- a/libexec/atrun/atrun.man +++ b/libexec/atrun/atrun.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: atrun.man,v 1.3 1997/02/22 14:20:55 peter Exp $ +.\" $Id: atrun.man,v 1.4 1997/11/20 07:21:53 charnier Exp $ .Dd April 12, 1995 .Dt ATRUN 8 .Os "FreeBSD 2.1" @@ -13,29 +13,31 @@ .Nm Atrun runs jobs queued by .Xr at 1 . +.Pp Root's .Xr crontab 5 file .Pa /etc/crontab has to contain the line .nf -*/5 * * * * root _ATLIB_DIR/atrun +*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun .fi -so +so that .Xr atrun 8 -gets called every five minutes. +gets invoked every five minutes. .Pp -At every invocation, every job in lowercase queues whose starting time -has passed is started. -A maximum of one batch jobs (denoted by uppercase queues) are started -each time +At every invocation, .Nm -is invoked. +will start all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start +time has elapsed. +In addition, if the load average over the last minute was less than +the specified limit then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the +uppercase queues) is started. .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl l Ar load_avg Specify a limiting load factor, over which batch jobs should -not be run, instead of the compiled \- in value of _LOADAVG_MX. +not be run, instead of the compiled in default of 1.5. .It Fl d Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using .Xr syslog 3 . @@ -47,10 +49,10 @@ to work, you have to start up a .Xr cron 8 daemon. .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width _ATSPOOL_DIR -compact -.It Pa _ATSPOOL_DIR +.Bl -tag -width /var/at/spool -compact +.It Pa /var/at/spool Directory containing output spool files -.It Pa _ATJOB_DIR +.It Pa /var/at/jobs Directory containing job files .El .Sh SEE ALSO |
